This Friday — August 24 — would have been the 90th birthday of the great historian and activist Howard Zinn, who died in 2010. Zinn did not merely record history, he made it: as a professor at Spelman College in the 1950s and early 1960s, where he was ultimately fired for his outspoken support of [...]

El historiador y activista dedicó su vida a las “innumerables pequeñas acciones de personas desconocidas” Nota del editor: Hoy, 27 de enero, es el segundo aniversario de la muerte de Howard Zinn. Activo participante en el movimiento en favor de los derechos civiles, fue despedido en 1963 de su puesto como profesor titular en el Spelman [...]

La guerra fue una de las más grandes preocupaciones para el inmortal historiador, Howard Zinn, especialmente las guerras imperiales. Es por eso que fue muy natural que su último libro tratara sobre la guerrra, sobre la guerra por el imperio y el capital. La Bomba, que ataca la razón principal que se da [...]

The power of Zinn’s scholarship—which I have watched over the past few weeks open the eyes of young, mostly African-Americans to their own history and the structures that perpetuate misery for the poor and gluttony and privilege for the elite—explains why the FBI, which released its 423-page file on Zinn on July 30, saw him as a threat. Zinn, who died in January at the age of 87, did not advocate violence or support the overthrow of the government, something he told FBI interrogators on several occasions. He was rather an example of how genuine intellectual thought is always subversive. It always challenges prevailing assumptions as well as political and economic structures.

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author Source: Rethinking Schools by Bill Bigelow An interview with historian Howard Zinn In 2008 Rethinking Schools and the Washington, D.C.-based education nonprofit Teaching for Change joined together to form the Zinn Education Project, dedicated to promoting the teaching of a people’s history in middle and high schools throughout the United [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author by Ramzy Baroud When American historian Howard Zinn passed away recently, he left behind a legacy that redefined our relationship to history altogether. Professor Zinn dared to challenge the way history was told and written. In fact he went as far as to defy the conventional construction of [...]

Source: Noam Chomsky Forthcoming in the Resist Newsletter, February 2010 by Noam Chomsky It is not easy for me to write a few words about Howard Zinn, the great American activist and historian who passed away a few days ago. He was a very close friend for 45 years. The families were very close too. His wife Roz, [...]

Source: Z Space by Mumia Abu-Jamal February 4, 2010 It should surprise no one when a man, nearly 90, dies.  It is as natural as moonlight, as regular as a rainbow after a summer shower. And yet, the passing of Howard Zinn surprises.  He was a few [years] shy of 90, true, but he was still a bright eyed [...]

Leer traducción abajo: El optimismo de la incertidumbre Source: Z Space by Howard Zinn February 1, 2010 American historian, playwright and social activist Howard Zinn died January 27, 2010, aged 87. His light will shine bright into the far off future. A new socially just world will owe a great debt to Howard and others like him who gave [...]

Source: Mighty Small Films by Howard Zinn and Sasha Lilley An excerpt from the DVD “Theory and Practice: Conversations With Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn” in which Prof. Zinn answers interviewer Sasha Lilley’s questions about a synthesis of anarchism and Marxism, the Paris Commune, and social change.